About other activities

I hold or have held many administrative positions and positions of trust in society. For example, I am currently a member of the scientific advisory board of the Foundation for Municipal Development (KAKS) and a member of the Finnish Athletics Federation’s Marketing and Communications Commission. From 2005–2006, I was a member of the Board of Directors of an Internet consultancy firm, Satama Interactive plc. I was also a member of the Board of Directors for Communication Consultancy Pohjoisranta Burson-Marsteller for over ten years. From 2001–2008, I acted as an editor-in-chief for Maine, a magazine published by the Finnish Association of Communications.

In addition, I have acted as an advisor in the areas of media, organizational communication, reputation, and digital communication in both the private and public sectors. I have published multiple practice-oriented texts. I have been interviewed in all the prominent daily newspapers and economic magazines in the Finnish-speaking world, and I have been featured several times on national television and radio.

Finnish Academy of Science and Letters is the largest general scientific and academic society in Finland. It is a learned society covering the full range of academic disciplines which is devoted to the promotion of scientific and scholarly research and serves as a bond uniting researchers engaged in these activities at the highest level.
Academy functions as a traditional learned society in the sense that its membership is limited and it selects its new members on their academic and scientific merits. It pursues its declared aims by arranging lectures and discussion meetings, publishing scientific papers, awarding grants and making recommendations and statements of opinion to the authorities in matters concerned with scientific and academic research and those who practice it. The Academy is represented on many scientific committees and in various organizations and foundations.